Mozart Sinfonia concertante, K364
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Composer or Director: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Label: Master Series
Magazine Review Date: 8/1986
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
Stereo
Catalogue Number: EG270236-4
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Sinfonia concertante |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
English Chamber Orchestra Luigi Bianchi, Viola Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Yehudi Menuhin, Violin |
| Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 3 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
English Chamber Orchestra Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Yehudi Menuhin, Violin |
Composer or Director: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Label: Master Series
Magazine Review Date: 8/1986
Media Format: Vinyl
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
Stereo
Catalogue Number: EG270236-1
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Sinfonia concertante |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
English Chamber Orchestra Luigi Bianchi, Viola Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Yehudi Menuhin, Violin |
| Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 3 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
English Chamber Orchestra Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Yehudi Menuhin, Violin |
Author:
The Sinfonia Concertante is given a sensitive performance which I much enjoyed. Luigi Bianchi is a name new to me. He has good intonation and a lovely tone-quality whose richness may have contributed to the impression I had that Menuhin's tone was a little thinner than usual. Perhaps microphone placing had something to do with this, but Menuhin is in excellent form, and musically I would only question the rubato at the end of the slow movement cadenza (Mozart's, of course) which seems extreme to me. Also the finale sounds a little rushed as Mozart concerto finales so often do these days.
The orchestra is lively in the Sinfonia Concertante and over lively in the violin concerto, oboes and horns being balanced too closely. The oboes even play in the slow movement though, as the sleeve-note mentions, they should have given way here to flutes. Menuhin plays his own cadenzas, which are interesting and musical, but a little long. He is in his best form, with beautifully sustained tone in the middle movement. But the balance is rather worrying, the oboes sounding almost aggressive, for instance in the Allegretto part of the finale. I would myself prefer the Zimmerman/HMV version of this work.'
The orchestra is lively in the
Mozart Sinfonia concertante, K364
Mozart Sinfonia concertante, K364
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